My New, Organized Gift Wrapping Station!

Want to create a gift wrapping station so all of your supplies are in one place? I’ll show you how I created mine!

Hi everyone! I’m emerging from my it-couldn’t-be-any-worse-of-a-mess basement (seriously you guys, it’s bad beyond words) to share one of my favorite home organizing ideas that came out of the ongoing clean up. In the course of our kitchen remodel, the finished area of our basement got piled high with boxes and bins from our kitchen and things only went south from there after we had some basement flooding. One of my major home goals for the year is to reclaim our basement living space so we can start using it again rather than it being just the messy storage pit that it is. There are tons of “homeless” things down there and my goal is to get things organized in a way that everything has its own designated home and is quick and easy to find. Several of the messy piles down there included rolls of gift wrap, gift bags, and tons of stray rolls of ribbon so I gathered them all together and came up with an organized gift wrapping station where everything I need to wrap gifts is stored and accessible in one easy-to-use (and pretty!) spot:

My search for something to organize all of my gift wrapping supplies started with searching for a typical gift wrap organizer but everything I found was either overpriced or not large enough to fit my wrapping stash. Then I found this pretty and well-priced kitchen cart {here} – it’s big enough to fit my wrapping stash, has a large top that’s perfect for wrapping a quick present, is on wheels to make it mobile, and is versatile enough that it can do double duty for a few other needs I have too. And did I mention that it’s super cute?

You never know how it’s going to go when you have to put a piece of furniture together but this cart was a breeze – each part was labeled with a sticker and even the hardware was divided up and labeled with each step of the instructions. Once I had it assembled, I gathered together all of my smaller gift wrapping supplies to put in the drawers, including my tape dispenser, cards, and tags in one drawer:

and my velvet ribbon in the other one:

The cart also comes with a handle on one side and two hooks on the other side. You could definitely drape tissue paper or folded gift wrap over the handle if you plan to mostly keep it in one spot but I decided to keep the handle naked so I had an easy way to grab the cart and roll it places when needed. I did take advantage of the two hooks on the other side to hold a pair of scissors and shorter ribbon pieces that weren’t on rolls:

Moving on to what’s on the shelves of my cart, the top shelf holds two pretty woven baskets found {here} as a set. One of the baskets holds my spools of ribbon (I use a piece of simple twine to keep them from unrolling):

and the right basket holds my pre-made bows. One of the cool things about these baskets is that they fold up for easy storage which makes them super versatile for lots of other uses in your home too:

I originally ordered a pair of similar but taller foldable woven baskets found {here} but they were a little too tall for my kitchen cart. They’re so good-looking that I kept them to use on my bookcases (baskets like these are perfect for adding warmth and texture!).

On the bottom shelf of my gift wrapping station is a clear storage bin for my wrapping paper rolls that I found {here} – it’s the PERFECT size for my cart and long enough to hold my wrapping paper rolls!

These bins would also work well if you simply want to store rolls of wrapping paper on a shelf because they are nice and narrow in width and stackable. On top of my wrapping paper storage box is a pair of {these smaller bins}. One of them holds bundles of tissue paper and the other holds small to medium sized gift bags:

It’s so nice having everything I need to quickly wrap a gift in one place instead of it being spread out between piles in the basement and I love that my gift wrapping station is on wheels so I can roll it right into my upstairs storage closet:

The kitchen cart is super solid and sturdy so you can store several stackable bins on top of it too if you want – right now I just have an extra wrapping paper bin on it for storing my extra rolls of wallpaper. It’s super easy to just take that bin off the top and use it to quickly wrap a present or roll the cart into the space right outside of my closet if I have several to wrap and want more space to do it in:

And here’s another big plus for using a kitchen cart for a gift wrapping station instead of a more traditional storage piece – there are a bunch of other ways that you can put it to work! Next time I wallpaper (which is actually going to be pretty soon – I have an entryway makeover in the works that I’ll be sharing details on soon!), I’m planning to unload the storage bins and use it to hold my sponge and bucket for wiping off the glue, edge roller, pencil and straight edge, and all of my other wallpapering tools (I’ll throw a towel over the butcher block top since it’s too pretty not to protect!). It will save me from bending down to get them off the ground each time and I can roll the cart around the room with me rather than having to continually pick up and move my tools from place to place.

The same goes for painting – having a rolling cart to rest my paint can, roller tray, and paper towels on that I can roll around the room with me will make painting easier and faster.

There are a lot of other uses for it too depending on your needs! It would be great tucked into a corner of your kitchen for storage of extra dinnerware or small appliances, would be a super cute spot for a coffee station, or could be used as an extra surface for food prep if you have limited countertop space:

The cart comes in gray or black too so if it’s something you’d leave out in your kitchen, there’s a color option that will work for you! Another use for my cute kitchen cart would be to hold a few side dishes next to your table when you have a big holiday dinner and your table’s packed with food and guests. Or use it for craft storage or as a bar cart … so many options!

So now that I’ve found the perfect home for the stray wrapping paper rolls, ribbon, and gift bags in one of the fifty five piles in our basement, it’s time to tackle the other fifty four. Since I can only stomach working down there for a few hours a week, I’m thinking a 2022 completion date of this project?? 🙂

Enjoy your weekend everyone!